trop

See also: tròp, trop., trop-, -trop, and -trop-

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: trŏp
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹɒp/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɹɔp/, (cot–caught merger) /tɹɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp
• Hyphenation: trop

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of troponin.

Noun

trop (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Abbreviation of troponin.

Related terms

• trop rock

Etymology 2

See trope (“cantillation pattern”).

Noun

trop (plural trops)

1. Alternative form of trope (“cantillation pattern”).

Anagrams

• PORT, Port, Port., Prot., port, prot-, torp

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tropus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɾɔp]
• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Hyphenation: tròp

Noun

trop m (plural trops)

1. (rhetoric) trope (figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

trop

1. (obsolete) too much, too many

Adverb

trop

1. (obsolete) too, too much

   Synonym: massa

Further reading

• “trop”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “trop”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “trop” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trop” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French trop, from Old French trop (“unreasonably excessive”), from Frankish *þorp (“a cluster, agglomeration", also "collection of houses, village”), from Proto-Germanic *þurpą (“village”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”) which are cognate with Old Saxon thorp (“village”), Old High German dorf (“village”), Old English þorp (“village”). Cognate with Italian troppo, and Piedmontese tròp/trop. More at English thorp, English troop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁo/, (in liaison) /tʁɔ.p‿/, /tʁo.p‿/^{[liaison 1]}
• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)

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• Homophone: trot

Adverb

trop

1. too; too much

   La soupe est trop chaude.

   The soup is too hot.

   J'ai trop mangé.

   I have eaten too much.

2. (colloquial, intensifier) very, really, so

   Synonyms: méga, fin

   Elle est trop belle !

   She is so beautiful!

Usage notes

1. Liaison is only permitted after adverbial use of trop: when used (pro)nominally (as in the sentence il y en a trop ici), it takes on the quality of a singular noun that prevents liaison with the following word. As it can be difficult to draw an unequivocal distinction between its adverbial and nominal uses, one may prefer to always forgo liaison following trop — even where it is permissible, liaison after trop is not only optional, but also significantly more formal than necessary (or appropriate) for most situations.

Derived terms

• de trop
• en trop
• par trop
• pas trop
• point trop n'en faut
• trop de

Descendants

• Esperanto: tro
• Louisiana Creole: tro

Further reading

• “trop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• port

Middle French

Adverb

trop

1. too; too much

Descendants

• French: trop

Norman

Etymology

From Old French trop (“unreasonably excessive”), from Frankish *þorp (“a cluster, agglomeration”).

Adverb

trop

1. (Guernsey) too; too much

Old French

Alternative forms

• trope, tro

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp.

Adverb

trop

1. excessively; too
2. enough; sufficiently

Descendants

• Middle French: trop
  • French: trop
• Norman: trop
• Picard: trôp, (Athois)
• Walloon: trop (Forrières), trop (Liégeois)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 395

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• tro

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *þorp. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French trop.

Adverb

trop

1. too (excessively; to an excessive extent)

Descendants

• Occitan: tròp

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “thorp”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 395

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• trup

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trup/

Noun

trop m (plural trop)

1. flock

   Synonym: strop

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

trop

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɔp/

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: trop

Etymology 1

From dialectal Proto-Slavic *tropъ.

Noun

trop m inan

1. clue

   Synonyms: klucz, wskazówka

2. trace

   Synonyms: poszlaka, ślad

3. spoor

Declension

Declension of trop

	singular	plural
nominative	trop	tropy
genitive	tropu	tropów
dative	tropowi	tropom
accusative	trop	tropy
instrumental	tropem	tropami
locative	tropie	tropach
vocative	tropie	tropy

Derived terms

adjectives

• zbity z tropu

verbs

• zbić z tropu pf, zbijać z tropu impf

Related terms

noun

• tropiciel

verb

• tropić

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trop

1. second-person singular imperative of tropić

Further reading

• trop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• trop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French trope, from Latin tropus.

Noun

trop m (plural tropi)

1. trope

Declension

Declension of trop

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	trop	tropul		tropi	tropii
genitive-dative	trop	tropului		tropi	tropilor
vocative	tropule			tropilor